Re: GNU Manuals in Info/HTML format via Guix?

Richard Stallman writes: > That is so much simpler than what Guix has to do that using Guix for > this would be a quick and dirty hack. There's no denying that using Guix isn't necessary. However, to be clear, Guix does already distribute Info manuals (standalone and otherwise) today. While no

Re: GNU Manuals in Info/HTML format via Guix?

Greetings for a New Year, Richard, > The task here is to distribute Info manuals in a few platform-independent > non-source forms, perhaps Info and HTML. Perhaps PDF files too. That is so > much simpler than what Guix has to do that using Guix for this would be a > quick and dirty hack. Indeed

Re: GNU Manuals in Info/HTML format via Guix?

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Guix is a GNU/Linux distribution, designed for building packages. The task here is t

lightdm updates need to review.

Hello everyone. I have try many display-manager in guix: gdm, sddm, slim and lightdm, and finally find lightdm is very comfortable to use after it fix session menu dispear problem in gux: 1. it start very fast. 2. lightdm-gtk-greeter can change font, background easy. 3. it can support other gre

Re: New committer

On 1/3/25 10:24 AM, Ian Eure wrote: Hello Guixers, I’ve applied for, and received, my commit bit! Congrats, Ian!

Re: Value of inkscape/stable

Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." writes: > Does the rationale for having a separate inkscape/stable [1] still > hold? Yes. dblatex still depends on inkscape, and thousands of packages directly or indirectly depend on dblatex. We use inkscape/stable

Re: 03/11: reconfigure: Support loading the system for kexec reboot.

Hello, Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> skribis: >> Good point! kexec_file_load(2) can only be given one initrd, so I >> suppose it cannot support extra initrds. >> >> That’s something we should at least document and probably protect >> against. > > Based on the kexec_file_load's man page it looks lik

Re: New committer

Hi Ian, On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 09:24 AM, Ian Eure wrote: > Hello Guixers, > > I’ve applied for, and received, my commit bit! The manual says to send > a signed email to say so, so that’s what I’m doing. > > By way of introductions: I’ve been using Linux since around 1995, when > I installed Slac

Value of inkscape/stable

Hi, Does the rationale for having a separate inkscape/stable [1] still hold? On my system, the only noticable result is that inkscape is rebuilt twice every time I update. Thanks! Kind regards Felix [1] https://codeberg.org/lechner/guix-mirror/src/commit/e5f68e3e474a6ce5e9c5ca6b24bdc2364ef429

Re: Request-For-Comment process: concrete implementation (v5)

Hello Guix! Simon Tournier skribis: > Below the updated version (v5) of the RFC introducing the RFC process. > > The submission is: . And now v6! https://issues.guix.gnu.org/74736#27 > Well, a very good lesson is: Co-supporter is very important! It helps

Re: New committer

Hello Ian, Welcome aboard, and thank you for everything you’ve already done! Ludo’.

Re: Guix Days 2025: Some graphics

Hello, Luis Felipe skribis: > I made some graphics to promote Guix Days online. Sharing them here > just in case you find them useful: > > https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/media/2024/12/guix-days-2025/ Excellent! We can definitely use it in the usual “Meet Guix at FOSDEM” blog post (speaking of w

Re: Use and abuse of ‘computed-origin-method’: the ‘rust-ring’ case

Efraim Flashner skribis: > I ended up making the changes and pushing them to the rust-team branch. > Rust-team is right after mesa-updates, so we should be landing it soon™ > > ¹ > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?h=rust-team&id=39c1a5f48e9f7a175be7b3c22a76d3ec2d9fc840 > https: